Sedo
and DomainNameSales Trade Punches in Sweeping 9 of the Top 10 Spots
on This Week's Sales Chart

In a battle reminiscent of a
heavyweight championship fight, popular domain aftermarket sales
platforms Sedo
and DomainNameSales
traded punches in a duel that ended with 9 of this week's 10 biggest
domain sales being split between those two combatants. Sedo scored first -
and scored big with #1 Partners.com, brokered by Dave
Evanson, putting $125,000 on their side of the
ledger.

In a nice follow-up Sedo also took the #2
spot on our all extension Top 20 Sales Chart with Banque.com
at $91,210. DomainNamesSales answered by sweeping the rest of
the first five with ProjectLife.com ($75,000), CityMD.com
($45,000) and S88.com ($35,000). But that wasn't the end
of it. Sedo came right back to claim the next two spots, then
DomainNameSales landed another blow of their own with a fourth top
ten entry.

Sedo finally pulled away down the stretch,
taking seven places on the second half of the leader board to wind
up with 12 of 20 entries overall. DomainNamesSales booked five
places and Afternic
rang up three, including a top ten entry of their own, #8 (tie) ClearWireless.com
at $20,000. Afternic is a dominating player in the
market's four-figure sweet spot but they also make their presence
known at the high end each week.

By
Ron Jackson

The .coms had their usual powerful
outing, ringing up 13 of the 20 chart entries. The non .com gTLDs
followed with four with that category being led by #7 Assurance.org
at $22,110 via Sedo. That group also had a nice two-letter
.org sale with #12 OE.org generating $16,750, also
through Sedo - a venue that rang up all three charted ccTLD sales
as well. The country code contingent was led by # 10 VideoShop.tv
at $18,760.

Here is how the
sales leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, February 17:

Keep in mind that these are the highest
value cash only sales that have been reported to us in the
past week. This column is meant to be an educational tool,
not a complete list documenting ALL high
value domain sales. Such a list is impossible to produce
because many sales are kept private at the insistence of
buyers, sellers or both. Our procedure for verifying the
accuracy of domain sales reports is available here.

There were four more five-figure sales just
off the chart led by Sedo's $10,500 sale of TheDefenders.com.
They also moved MarketingList.com for $10,000 while
DomainNameSales and DomainHoldings teamed up to sell IndianWood.com
and Pupuk.com for $10,000 each.

.Com Supporting Cast

DomainNameSales led the supporting
cast of four-figure .com sales with PragueAccommodation.com
at $9,500. IQTab.com added $6,500 while CalBulbs.com
and DailyReport.com returned $6,000 each. Three
others; DeerskinGloves.com, ItemGrabber.com and CountryClubGolf.com
chipped in $5,000 apiece.

Ristorantimilano.com and KoreanWallpaper.com
went for $3,900 each, IsoGel.com absorbed $3,200
and Soylu.com landed $3,200. ResumeLibrary.com
checked out $3,000, Biltoki.com banked $2,200
and CloudGateway.com opened up $2,100.

DomainAdvisors
also used the DomainNameSales (DNS) platform to sell Pillpack.com
($8,800), ConversationTopics.com ($6,500), SausageRecipe.com
($5,500) and TheViewingLounge.com ($5,000). DomainHoldings
also utilized DNS to move TimeSwitch.com at $6,500
and ManchesterAirportHotel.com at $5,000.

Everwood.com deposited $6,300, LinkFire.com
lit up $6,000 and Stingl.com commanded $5,500.
Jiomobile.com connected for $5,226 and PilotSchool.com
lifted off with $5,100. Sedo had 38 more four-figure
sales ranging from $2,000 to $5,000 that are
listed in the table below:

Additional
Sedo .com Sales Between $2,000 - $5,000

ezreviews.com

$5,000

teraportal.com

$3,195

reggaechannel.com

$5,000

paratronic.com

$3,168

energymind.com

$4,620

winvia.com

$3,000

6games.com

$4,409

baltimorecityhomes.com

$2,999

adventuremovies.com

$4,300

soireesprivees.com

$2,680

besthostels.com

$4,020

hubstock.com

$2,595

bmatch.com

$4,000

3game.com

$2,500

dynamicapp.com

$4,000

chbr.com

$2,500

knitta.com

$4,000

promill.com

$2,500

premierfinancial.com

$4,000

sunnylabs.com

$2,500

workinnorway.com

$4,000

xieon.com

$2,500

brandcap.com

$3,900

autobemiddelaar.com

$2,495

carloanworld.com

$3,875

99t.com

$2,200

mobilityhire.com

$3,511

radey.com

$2,195

performanceconsulting.com

$3,510

jiocomm.com

$2,010

alwatany.com

$3,500

banknational.com

$2,000

ephex.com

$3,500

d-world.com

$2,000

clari.com

$3,425

loupin.com

$2,000

hitmixradio.com

$3,350

reputationdoctors.com

$2,000

Back at Afternic Gridspace.com contained $7,500,
ChannelGateway.com welcomed $7,000 and AGIL.com
clicked for $6,495. MillionGames.com made $6,000
followed by a five-name logjam at $5,000 each that
included Estila.com, Flickable.com, FreeTestosterone.com,
OmniNews.com and TacomaForum.com.

The trio
of five-figure ccTLD
sales
that you saw on the all extension leader board above, led by VideoShop.tv
at $18,760, fill the first three slots on our new
weekly Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart. The biggest sale
in this category that you haven't seen yet is #4 Pathology.com.au,
an Australian domain that sold for $8,631 at NetFleet.com.au.

Sedo rounded out the top five with #5 WeightLoss.tv
at $8,500 and they went on to pile up 14 of the 20 chart
entries. DomainHoldings used the DomainNameSales platform to
make two top ten sales - #7 Moovies.co.uk at $6,500
and #9 (tie) CarSeat.co.uk at $5,000. Afternic
also put two names on the elite list - #6 Hey.co at $7,400
and #17 YAU.us at $3,200.

Germany's .de won the extension race with
five chart entries. The only other TLDs with
multiple chart entries were Tuvalu's .tv, Colombia's .co
and Great Britain's .co.uk with two each.

Here is how the country code leaders stacked
up for the week ending Sunday, February 17:

There were dozens of additional four-figure ccTLD sales off the chart
with Sedo accounting for the majority of those with a group led by BlueSea.co.uk
at $2,764 and Sal.es at $2,750. TalentAkademie.de
added $2,680 and Orgasmic.de delivered $2,546.

Sedo had 30 more four-figure ccTLD sales ranging
from $1,000 to $2,500 that are listed in the table below:

Additional
Sedo ccTLD Sales Between $1,000 - $2,500

stal.in

$2,500

local.mx

$1,407

argile.de

$2,466

lumas.us

$1,340

metzeler.at

$2,412

pflegehilfe.ch

$1,273

monk.co.uk

$2,148

boardwalk.co.uk

$1,232

casinoroulette.fr

$2,000

chamberlains.co.uk

$1,224

lio.co

$2,000

finanzmaxx.de

$1,197

snr.co

$2,000

seedhouse.de

$1,099

away.no

$1,999

cloud9.us

$1,075

smile.eu

$1,997

bd24.de

$1,072

officecleanerslondon.co.uk

$1,848

domainers.eu

$1,057

starred.in

$1,800

nextstep.it

$1,005

healthchecks.co.uk

$1,619

steuergutscheine.de

$1,005

fragrancenet.co

$1,608

benefits.se

$1,000

penis.co.za

$1,463

book.com.ng

$1,000

o.ht

$1,450

traderworld.eu

$1,000

NetFleet.com.au
moved seven more Australian domains including Jewelry.com.au
at $1,921, Comic.com.au at $1,589 and Tree.com.au
at $1,453. MigrationAustralia.com.au yielded $1,369,
Arborist.com.au planted $1,297, KidsBooks.com.au
bagged $1,151 and SelfManage.com.au sold for $1,149.

Elsewhere GSI.us sold for $1,599
in a private transaction and Afternic sold BreakFree.us
for $1,000.

If there are country code extensions in our report
that you are not familiar with, you can look up the nation each
extension goes with here.

Non .com gTLDs (.biz, .info, .mobi, .net, .org, .asia, .pro & .tel)

The quartet of five-figure non .com
gTLD sales you saw in the all extension section earlier fill
the first four slot on our latest weekly Non .com gTLD Top 20
Sales Chart with Assurance.org taking the top spot at
$22,110. The highest sale in this category that you
haven't seen yet is #5 Hotell.info, a domain that Sedo
sold for $8,040.

While Sedo took the first five spots on the leader
board, Afternic claimed three of the next four, then turned on the
afterburners to pile up 11 of the 20 chart entries overall. The
Afternic roster was led by #6 CheckIt.net at $5,750
and #7 Sculpt.org at $5,500.

The .nets easily won the extension race with
12 charted domains .Org was next with five (including the
week's top two sales) and .info claimed the remaining three
(including two that landed among the five biggest sales).

Here's how all of the Non .Com gTLD leaders stacked up for the
week ending Sunday, February 17:

Now that you're up to date on what happened over the
past week, check out how the leaders stand year to date in all
categories by visiting our Year
To Date Charts page.

*****

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